Found an interesting article on the Daily Pennsylvanian regarding Penn’s employment statistics/success compared to other Ivies. I think current and future applicants for would appreciate reading this.
http://www.thedp.com/article/2015/03/penn-seeking-employment-rate-one-of-lowest-in-country
And also this regarding the diplomas with the highest avg salaries http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/05/30/50-college-diplomas-with-the-highest-pay/
Penn seas is #6,penn wharton is #12(both would be higher if bonuses were taken into account- so many whartonites and seas students go into banking were the most money is in the bonuses not the base salary) and penn nursing is #47
If DD gets into Wharton… dunno what she will do. We’ll see on Tuesday. But hard to argue with getting a job as long as you are in the top 95%!
My daughter, SEAS class of 2015 received a highly paid job offer today.
Congrats, Coolweather!
Is she going to take it, or is she still considering other options?
Thanks. She is going to take it. Its her dream job.
Coolweather, can I ask what field she is in within SEAS. My d is considering computer science and knows less about penn than some others (CMU, MIT, Harvey Mudd) but she really likes the school. I’d love to hear how kids are faring in the program on graduation.
@jaidsmom compsci is probably the second most popular engineering major at Penn after bioengineering but it is growing so fast that in a few years it will be the most popular. Penn comp sci grads fare very well and many of them go into quant hedge funds or major data analysis companies like palantir technologies. The money in this industry is great since the financial industry is becoming more and more complex and dependent on computers. Also representation in Google, Facebook, yahoo, Microsoft,Amazon is very very big. Also Penn organizes twice a year the biggest collegehackathon in the country, Penn Apps where the best from all over the world participate and have the chance to gain amazing coding experience and network with each other and with major companies who sponsor the event.
The differentiating factor between Penn and the schools you mentioned is that penn follows the Steam approach instead of stem ( steam is science, tech, engineering, arts and math). This means that Penn focuses on making sure engineering students are well rounded academically and also focus on the necessary technical curriculum of an engineering education. So in other words Penn is a bit more well rounded than Cmu, mit, Harvey Mudd.
@penn95 OMG thank you!
I was accepted to penn for cs and all that is very reasuring
@SephardicJewESA of course!! And congrats on your acceptance!!!
@jaidsmom
My DD is majoring in CS. Her minor is fine arts.
She switched from CAS to SEAS during her sophomore year.
Congrats to Penn class of 2019 acceptance!
@jaidmom - Details about Penn grad salary is here.
Average salary for software engineer/developer is $92,681 (33 respondents)
Average salary in technology is $92,109 (50 respondents)
http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/files/SEASCPSurv2014BASBSE.pdf
the stats are impressive indeed. can any currents student/alumni talk about the alumni network at Penn, like if it is close-knit, helpful, if alumni are willing to talk/ help out current students, any experiences at all would be helpful. I am currently deciding between Columbia and Penn and I am leaning towards Penn for many but would like to learn more before I make my decision.
@marc123 based on my personal experience the alumni network has been very helpful. an alumnus working at the company i was interested in helped me very much in getting a summer internship for that company. he helped both through the company’s referral system and by being available to answer questions and give me advice. also i have had similar experience with a couple of other alumni i reached out to for career advice /help.
thanks so much @Penn95 and @coolweather . You touched on one of our specific interests and that is arts as well as cs. My daughter is a working actress and had always planned on an acting major but is far enough into her career it doesn’t seem practical and she just got very hooked on cs over the past few years. We liked CMU because it is ranked number one in cs but also nationally ranked in acting and they said they would let her cs major and acting minor. We liked MIT because of the mandatory 8 humanities courses. My daughter recently placed in a national humanities based research competition at MIT and we were so impressed with their humanities dept. Harvey Mudd we love the amount of girls in cs, highest balance in the country but we did feel it seemed to not have as much rounding however they are part of Claremont Consortium so they have access to the other more arts focused schools as well. The biggest appeal of Penn was what some others would consider a downside. The small size of the program was very attractive. It is small but has so many focuses available due to its blending of art, science and engineering and the quality of the program and the students coming out of it are fantastic.